AXIAN Digibank & Fintech

We Are Hiring

AXIAN Digibank & Fintech is looking for a Technical Project Manager to join its team and contribute to the delivery of technology-driven projects.

Position

Job Title: Technical Project Manager

Job Reference: req4926

Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Antananarivo, Madagascar / Islamabad, Pakistan

Employment Type: Not specified in the provided vacancy information

Key Requirements and Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or an equivalent field.

Professional Experience

Minimum 10 years of project or delivery management experience in technology.

At least 3 years of experience in fintech, mobile money, digital banking, or telecommunications.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate should have:

• Hands-on technical delivery experience with core wallet, core banking, or payments platforms.
• A proven track record of managing technical workstreams within larger transformation programmes, including integration delivery and data migration.
• Experience managing Tier-1 vendor delivery teams alongside third-party integrators.
• Experience working in African markets is preferred.
• Experience managing multi-country technology delivery is an advantage.
• Strong working knowledge of:
  • Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
  • Waterfall project delivery
  • Hybrid delivery models
• Ability to select and apply the appropriate project delivery approach depending on the project context.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Project Planning and Delivery

• Build and maintain detailed technical project plans for assigned workstreams.
• Integrate technical workstream plans into the overall programme plan managed by the Programme Director.
• Ensure technical activities, milestones, and deliverables remain aligned with the wider programme objectives.

Dependency Management

• Identify, document, and actively manage dependencies within the assigned workstream.
• Coordinate dependencies across other workstreams, including:
  • Product
  • Compliance
  • Data
  • Distribution
  • Operations
  • Customer Care

Vendor and Delivery Team Coordination

• Coordinate Core Wallet delivery teams and third-party vendors on a daily basis.
• Track Statements of Work (SOW) deliverables and project milestones.
• Monitor vendor performance and Service Level Agreement (SLA) adherence.
• Ensure delivery issues are identified and addressed in a timely manner.

Risk and Issue Management

• Maintain Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) logs.
• Identify potential risks and issues affecting project delivery.
• Drive mitigation and resolution actions through to closure.

Testing and Quality Assurance

• Plan and coordinate System Integration Testing (SIT).
• Orchestrate User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Coordinate performance and security testing cycles.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance (QA) teams, vendors, and business-unit teams throughout testing.

Project Documentation

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation, including:
  • Project plans
  • RAID logs
  • Decision logs
  • Action logs
  • Meeting minutes
  • Change records
  • Other relevant project artefacts

Resource Management

• Manage resource onboarding, allocation, and offboarding across the workstream.
• Coordinate internal employees, contractors, and vendor resources.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available to support project delivery.

• Build and maintain detailed technical project plans for assigned workstreams.
• Integrate technical workstream plans into the overall programme plan managed by the Programme Director.
• Ensure technical activities, milestones, and deliverables remain aligned with the wider programme objectives.
• Identify, document, and actively manage dependencies within the assigned workstream.
• Coordinate dependencies across other workstreams, including: Product, Compliance, Data, Distribution, Operations, Customer Care.
• Coordinate Core Wallet delivery teams and third-party vendors on a daily basis.
• Track Statements of Work (SOW) deliverables and project milestones.
• Monitor vendor performance and Service Level Agreement (SLA) adherence.
• Ensure delivery issues are identified and addressed in a timely manner.
• Maintain Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) logs.
• Identify potential risks and issues affecting project delivery.
• Drive mitigation and resolution actions through to closure.
• Plan and coordinate System Integration Testing (SIT).
• Orchestrate User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Coordinate performance and security testing cycles.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance (QA) teams, vendors, and business-unit teams throughout testing.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation, including: Project plans, RAID logs, Decision logs, Action logs, Meeting minutes, Change records, Other relevant project artefacts.
• Manage resource onboarding, allocation, and offboarding across the workstream.
• Coordinate internal employees, contractors, and vendor resources.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available to support project delivery.

• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Waterfall project delivery
• Hybrid delivery models
• Project planning
• Dependency management
• Vendor management
• Risk and issue management
• Testing coordination (SIT, UAT)
• Project documentation
• Resource management

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or an equivalent field.
• Minimum 10 years of project or delivery management experience in technology.
• At least 3 years of experience in fintech, mobile money, digital banking, or telecommunications.
• Hands-on technical delivery experience with core wallet, core banking, or payments platforms.
• Proven track record of managing technical workstreams within larger transformation programmes, including integration delivery and data migration.
• Experience managing Tier-1 vendor delivery teams alongside third-party integrators.
• Experience working in African markets is preferred.
• Experience managing multi-country technology delivery is an advantage.